New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-07
WRECKED BY A WASHOUT.
QUEER ACCIDENT ON THE IRON MOUNTAIN.
TRAIN ALMOST DESTROYED bf n o"
BRANCH-THREE MEN DRo"NED-eh'NN'"
INJURED.
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BRANcH-TnREE MEN DRowNED-sEVKKAL
INJURED.
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ST LOUIS March 6.-The passengers VINO ioI'
mia CITY at $50 last night the southDound leAae
press on the Iron Mountain Railroad were supJe''o
an experience that they will never forget lhe ram W.
sisted Of two baggage cars an express car soA' Wv"
coaches and four sleepers and carried about lou
gers. About forty miles south OF tue o''S I
road runs through a small valley and twisung aio
first on one side of the track then on the other
Creek, which ordinarily can be crossed ~ ono ooa
an active jumper. But the creek occasioh"i' 30 ~
pant and then it swens beyond its banks anu hoo w
surrounding country for half mile Inc nr,aas.
many has been replacing the WOODEN piiase'
which span the creek with strong Hoh
structures until only one wooden pridge rehaiieu.
Two messenger trains preceded the Texas express anu
passed in safety the structure IL was noteeu a'
the creek was rising rapidly. 1t was banKiu anu ,e
current was rushing toward the Mississippi with
velocity The rainstorm which began in the morning
WA s in prorress and 1t was dark that Engineer
Kelly could not discern objects beside the track Inc
bridge is about sixty long and feet ABOVE
water.
As the train approached the structure the engineer
heard the rush Of the waters and saw the roaming
dashng against the trail support. The water had al
ready done its work and the abutment and pillars h"
been washed away As the engine darted on 'ne
n co,,apsed and the locomotive the mail and express car
two baggage cars and the smoker tumoied ih'o tue
raging stream The engineer leaped headong o"t Vi o
cab when he felt the bridge sinking and oated 10 'he
branches OF tree which he caught and cluag to for two
houra The fireman, Louis Haas, went down
under the wreck. but foated out nan
dead with his skull fractured and WAS
pcked up on the bank The locomotive was carried down
stream some distance The baggage cars crashed INTO
each other and lifted from their trucks by the water
and carried fully 100 feet down As the end OF
III . horE no
Burns cut and injured In shocking manner
crawled out through a window. The express
messenger half drowned. escaped through the Veha'or
and swan ashore About ten men and one woman were
IN the sleeper The experience Of the passengers pes'
told by H. Dreyer Of Galveston, who was on MS wa!
home:
81 was doing when felt a sudden SHOCK said he
and the car seemed TO be running the ties Then
all AT once We down, and the crash into the wafer
broke the fall Everybody jumped up, ana houceu
one end OF the higher than the other'
then the lower end swung around and began 10 Ill up
with water. 1t was the seats In minute.
pushed up window and saw water all around In q
second the water poured in through the window and
crawled out cung to the top OF the car Inc pas
sengers rushed to the high end and many OF them
crawled out through the window. One or TWO were
drowned the while trying to get out through the
yentlators H. c. senker. OF Indianapolis, helped the
woman and swan ashore with her His SON VINO was As
o good swimmer. aided number OF the passengers 70
reach land Nearly all the cars tnat went uo"u Weio
carried 200 800 yards below the bridge and the pas
In coaches and seepes which stayed on the
track aided much as possible"
relief train sent from this city al O'CLOCK anu
returned this morning with the wounded who were
TO the Missouri Pacific Hospital The water fell rapdV
this morning when the wreck was reached by the re-
party the creek had reached lite normal stage vi he
engine nothing renamed the boiler Express matter
and baggage scattered around in the woods for
miles and lined the bank Of the creek. one OF
the baggage cars on its side. the sleeper
was inclined at angle up the bank and
n search had to be made to find the express car
The drowned are Samuel Meyers. OF ST Louis
brakeman. and Henry Byron. OF Dcsoio, Mo Byron
lowing are the injured: valto Altmeyer, Coum-
bus, Oho Antonio Patello, Italian; FRANK
St Louis engineer; Frank Hatch Desoto; Louis Haas,
freman skull fractured J. ii. Baldwin. jamestown
n y. cut in head and hand; J. II. Tcomb, San Jose
CAL cut in neck and head; g. p Rick Point Burnside
Ky contusions and Internal injuries; W j. H. Fonaine
news agent cut and ribs fractured dozen others were
injured who taken.South and whose names couid
moi he learned.